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  • Rock star Thom is a real gent

    IT'S not every day North Yorkshire plays host to a rock'n'roll legend (unless you count Alistair Griffin). So the good folk organising last Saturday's Fylingdales protest march were not sure what to expect. Would Thom Yorke, frontman of legendary band

  • Opera North in Manon Lescaut; Grand Theatre, Leeds

    The new music director of Opera North, Richard Farnes, has opened his innings in fine style with a new production of Puccini's lyric drama. The orchestra's contribution is never less than idiomatic and at times borders on the thrilling. But there are

  • Sizing up a big issue

    THE size of York's young obesity problem is encapsulated in one photograph. Two adults fit comfortably into an enormous skirt. Yet skirts and trousers with similar waistlines are now being supplied to youngsters by school uniform specialists Rawcliffes

  • Kirkdale's nap booty

    In-form Kirkdale United maintained their 100 per cent start to division one of the RJF Homes Beckett Football League with a 5-1 defeat of Heslerton. Paddy Robinson, Ashley Windress and Ian Prendergast made it 3-0 within ten minutes before Prendergast

  • DIY agony

    TOO much chocolate is also bad for your teeth. And few pains are as unrelenting as toothache. However, we would not recommend readers follow the orthodontic methods adopted by George Daulat. Driven crazy by his cavities, he undertook a little DIY dentistry

  • Boro boss draws blank

    SCARBOROUGH FC head coach Nicky Henry has failed in his bid to sign a proven goalscorer for tonight's trip to Rochdale in the LDV Trophy. "The player is still talking to his club about a severance payment and I don't think it will be sorted in time for

  • Looking for more income? Let it be!

    HOW long the property boom will last is anyone's guess. It has been fuelled in part by low interest rates and poor performance on the stock market. Many people see property investment as the best way of providing for retirement while giving a boost to

  • A new life in the park

    A NEW venture by York-based Shepherd Building Group has got off to a massive start. Advent Park & Leisure Homes, Shepherd's new company which builds park homes and leisure lodges at New Lane, Huntington, York, has already won £500,000 worth of orders

  • Groves cut down

    NEW Earswick All Blacks stormed into the third round of the Tetley's Yorkshire Cup after a comprehensive 64-6 demolition of neighbours York Groves. All Blacks, who play three divisions above the Terriers in the Pennine League, were always favourites to

  • Playing the market - 28/09/04

    Playful Dane, who just failed to make all the running at Redcar on his latest start, can show his rivals a clean pair of heels from start to finish at Newcastle tomorrow. Scott Cunningham's speedy seven-year-old goes for the Renault Kangoo Handicap over

  • '10,000 more jobs in York'

    YORK has 10,000 more jobs since Labour came in power in 1997, the city's MP Hugh Bayley said today. Mr Bayley told delegates at the Labour Party conference that there were 54,000 jobs in his City of York constituency last year compared with 44,000 in

  • Let them know

    I WOULD like to thank everyone who attended the public meeting on post office closures at the Guildhall ("Post closures 'soft targets'", September 21). The meeting proved to be constructive, with many questions on a variety of issues put to representatives

  • We salute them

    ALL who knew Derek and Jean Robinson will remember them with affection and respect. Their untimely death in such tragic circumstances has shocked colleagues and friends alike (Tributes to stab victim doctor, September 20). Devoted to their children, they

  • Skiffle along now

    A SKIFFLE night with The Dog House Skiffle Band in aid of St Leonard's Hospice has been organised for Saturday, October 23. For those of a certain age, this will be a reminder of one's youth when entertainment was not sanitised by electronics but was

  • Who are they?

    JUST one question, who are all these people moving into these five-storey "apartments"? No, make that two questions. How much council tax are they generating? Mrs Mary Morrod, Heworth Village, York. Updated: 11:05 Tuesday, September 28, 2004

  • Ready to start Barbican work

    DEVELOPERS say they are on schedule to begin the redevelopment of York's Barbican Centre later this year. Barbican Venture director Andrew Cossins, speaking after City of York Council had issued a formal notice of planning approval for the scheme, said

  • Sun sets on great campaign

    SUN Inn ended their York Unique-Phoenix Darts League division one programme with an emphatic 8-1 win at Cygnet 'A'. A pairs 180 followed by a brace of 17 darters from Jon O'Mara sealed victory after Tony Cooper hit a two-dart 100 finish in his pairs.

  • Evennett dazzles with pure gold feat

    Race walker Paul Evennett has been burning up the streets of Manchester to claim his first major title. The 36-year-old from York raced home in the North of England championships with a 14-minute lead over his nearest rivals in the men's 20 kilometre

  • Five hurt in school bus incident

    FIVE children suffered minor injuries today when a double-decker bus carrying them to school was forced to brake sharply. The bus, operated by York company First, shuddered to a halt after it was believed two cyclists pulled out of a junction into its

  • Seconds off to a winning start

    CITY of York hockey club's second team opened their North League East campaign with a 1-0 victory at Marton and Furness I. Glyn Brook-Humphrey netted the only goal when he deflected in a short corner strike. Good defensive work by David Brooks and excellent

  • Nestl rejects call to axe big chocolate bars

    SCHOOLCHILDREN in York are becoming so fat that uniform suppliers are selling skirts with up to 44-inch waists. New figures show that obesity is growing faster in Yorkshire and Humberside than in Britain as a whole. Worried health managers are poised

  • Disneyland: the ultimate half-term treat

    Imagine enjoying all the excitement of Halloween this half-term in the magical surroundings of Disneyland Resort Paris. Arranged by Newmarket, the Reader Travel company which has taken hundreds of thousands of clients to the resort, this magical four-day

  • It's all down to your name

    WHAT'S in a name? Ask a boy named Sue, or Peter Ian Graham or a poor kid named Gary Glitter Smith by a misguided mum who was an adoring fan in the Seventies. Would John Wayne have turned out such a tough guy if his real name hadn't been Marion Morrison

  • Trio shortlisted for awards

    YORK City Knights boss Richard Agar is one of three Knights stars in the running for top National League awards - but says he would swap it all for promotion. Agar is a nominee for the prestigious LHF Healthplan National League Two Coach of the Year crown

  • Way we were

    Tuesday, September 28, 2004 100 years ago: The Yorkshire Brevities column echoed a Yorkshire Herald leading article, condemning the proposal to reconstruct the Exhibition Buildings, in Exhibition Square, York, and to convert them into a Secondary Technical

  • Business Awards finalists revealed

    NOW, at last, after nearly four exciting months, the finalists of the Evening Press Business Awards 2004 can be announced. The theme is The Future Dawns... and it's been a long and fascinating dawn watch, as judges scrutinised the ventures of more entrants

  • Shopping for a win

    ONE of the biggest firms to reach the finals of Retailer of the Year is Ebor Foodmarkets Ltd, of Dunnington, better known as Costcutter. It employs 870 people, has 86 stores, a turnover of £82 million and especially targets the village shopper, aiming

  • Happy Jays are here again for Jacqueline

    IN JUST seven years, Jacqueline Gernon has built up Happy Jays Ltd of Clifton Moor, York, to become what her husband and co-director, Tony, describes as "the premier provider of high quality child care in the York area." With a turnover approaching £750,000

  • Toeing the line on data storage

    BUSINESSES need to take care in checking whether they are complying with European law on the data they hold on employees. This advice follows reports that the UK Government is under investigation by the European Commission for the Government's apparently

  • Everything in the garden's lovely for Richard

    RECORD profits and turnover up 25 per cent on last year will be unveiled next month by a North Yorkshire landscapingcompany. Green-tech Ltd, a multi-million pound nationwide landscaping supplies business at Nun Monkton, near York, has also just won a

  • Poverty's genteel face

    STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the plight of York's 'hidden poor'. THROUGHOUT her nearly 30 years in nursing, Barbara Lambert never thought it would end up like this. At the age of 64, she and her 24-year-old son Joel, who has Down's Syndrome, survive on Barbara's

  • Pop Stand closed for Blackpool visit

    POPULAR Stand regulars will have to sit elsewhere for the LDV Vans Trophy match against Blackpool on Wednesday night (7.45pm) after a decision to shut the stand to save money. Hundreds of pounds in stewarding costs will be conserved for the first round

  • York Property Company

    FOUR landlords who became fed up with their letting agents not returning calls and upsetting their tenants decided to join forces and go it alone. The York Property Company was born with its directors - Pauline and Martin Cooper, Steve Boldison and Paul

  • Final bell knells for boxing

    BRITISH boxing will rise briefly from a menacing terminal decline this Friday when Ricky 'The Hitman' Hatton again takes to the ring. The Manchester-based warrior - holder of the World Boxing Union world title - is engaged in a title eliminator for the

  • Well done for sorting it out

    LET me tell you a true story. It concerns an old friend who is in his nineties, living in York, and a bit dodgy on his legs; so much so that he had to buy an electric buggy in order to continue to get about, do his shopping and so forth. However, when

  • Sham elections

    I LISTENED with interest to the speech given by the Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, to the US senators, looking forward to elections in January 2005. This would be good news provided the elections meant anything. They are to produce a body to discuss

  • I want a go

    I LOOK forward to the arrival of the StreetCar in York - it looks wonderful! It is a great honour for York to get to pilot this new vehicle, but I don't see why York University should be the only ones to benefit from the new technology. The sleek vehicle

  • Good luck in fight to win full access rights on the Nidd

    I WISH every success to Penny Cole, Doreen Rogers and others in their struggle to reinstate full, historic access rights over the River Nidd at Skewkirk (September 23). Campaigners may be encouraged to see the enclosed photograph showing the original

  • Lennon was right on religion

    WHEN I see and hear about the tragedies in Palestine, Beslan, South Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sudan , the Congo, Israel and so forth, I think about that marvellous John Lennon song, Imagine. I especially think of the

  • Here it is again

    READER A Ogilvy fails to understand the parallel drawn between the miners and the hunts (Letters, September 24). Let me try to explain. Before the mining industry was decimated by the then government, the miners went about their lives in a law-abiding

  • Is it in the blood?

    HOW predictable that A Ogilvy, a true blue Conservative if ever there was one, says miners fighting for their living behaved illegally compared to people who cannot swap to drag hunting - which is no different to fox hunting but without the blood, fear

  • Have a hunt ballot

    THERE are many issues to consider when voting at a general election. Hunting is way down the list, so heaven help us if this issue decides who governs us. A simple way to settle the hunting debate would be to have a referendum. The easy way to do this

  • '10,000 more jobs in York'

    YORK has 10,000 more jobs since Labour came in power in 1997, the city's MP Hugh Bayley said today. Mr Bayley told delegates at the Labour Party conference that there were 54,000 jobs in his City of York constituency last year compared with 44,000 in

  • It's the Turk of the town

    THREE days of non-stop celebration will mark the wedding of Sinan Altin and Gulay Kavak. The couple married at a traditional Turkish ceremony yesterday - but the party will go on well into tomorrow night. Mr Altin, 26, a businessman from York, married

  • Jury u-turn blow for police chief

    POLICE watchdogs have refused to back North Yorkshire's most senior officer in a row over jury service. The county's police authority unanimously rejected the Chief Constable's decision to direct staff to try and avoid court duty. Della Cannings is now

  • Batman's happy return to York

    A FATHERS 4 Justice campaigner behind a serious security lapse at Buckingham Palace was back in York today to plan his next headline-grabbing stunt. Protestor Jason Hatch - who recently scaled a palace wall dressed as Batman - was also involved in an

  • Caroline's dad to publish book

    THE father of tragic York backpacker Caroline Stuttle said today that he intends to release a book to help other parents facing similar heartbreaks at the end of the trial of the man accused of her murder. Alan Stuttle, a respected artist, plans to join

  • Court hears of Caroline's last call

    THE boyfriend of York backpacker Caroline Stuttle has given touching evidence of the phone call he received from her just minutes before she was thrown to her death from a bridge in Queensland, Australia. Ian Nelson told Queensland Supreme Court that

  • Coffins for sale: Excellent condition

    HOW'S this for a scarily good deal? York handyman Geoff Plows is selling a couple of coffins for £50 each. He believes the ghoulish giveaway is the perfect Hallowe'en gift. Geoff, 63, stumbled across the caskets when he was busy renovating a former post

  • Pop Stand closed for Blackpool visit

    POPULAR Stand regulars will have to sit elsewhere for the LDV Vans Trophy match against Blackpool on Wednesday night (7.45pm) after a decision to shut the stand to save money. Hundreds of pounds in stewarding costs will be conserved for the first round

  • Trio shortlisted for awards

    YORK City Knights boss Richard Agar is one of three Knights stars in the running for top National League awards - but says he would swap it all for promotion. Agar is a nominee for the prestigious LHF Healthplan National League Two Coach of the Year crown

  • Battle of the trees

    THIS is the moment when a two-day bid to save trees from the axe ended in confrontation and arrests in York today. Police dragged off six protesters - including City of York councillor Andy D'Agorne and wheelchair user Belinda Nova - after they refused

  • It brought all those cards back to me

    STAYING with my friend and her two sons last weekend, I spent a good hour pouring over the lads' most prized collections. Not fossils, shells or rocks, but Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. It was mentally exhausting, feigning interest in more than 100 computer-graphic-style